On Fri 2015-10-09 10:19:48, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > On 10/08/2015 05:51 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > >On Mon 2015-09-28 17:13:39, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > >>This patch isn't going to be applied since it can cause > >>legal implications for existing users. > >> > > > >Are there any? Best do this ASAP :-). > > Current non-GPL users of led_set_brightness would be affected if we > changed this. I am not however certain if there are any, having in > mind Actually, _GPL or not is just an annotation, it has little legal power. > that led_classdev_register is exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. > Theoretically it is possible to use led_set_brightness without > registering LED class device, but it would be partially broken then > due to not initialized set_brightness_work. > I think that it would be safe to apply this patch. > I need acks, though :) Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-leds" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
